On One Foot: Joshua Hammerman's Blog

Author of "Embracing Auschwitz" and "Mensch•Marks: Life Lessons of a Human Rabbi - Wisdom for Untethered Times." Winner of the Rockower Award, the highest honor in Jewish journalism and 2019 Religion News Association Award for Excellence in Commentary. Musings of a rabbi, journalist, father, husband, poodle-owner, Red Sox fan and self-proclaimed mensch, taken from essays, columns, sermons and thin air. Writes regularly in the New York Jewish Week and Times of Israel.

After Sandy: Coping with Disaster, Climate Change and the “New Normal”

Civility in Discourse About Israel

Parsha Packet for Pekuday - What is Show Bread - and Why?

Toldot, Black Friday and Impulse Buying

Global Hunger Shabbat

Are Zoos Ethical? Hammerman on Ethics

"Who is A Jew??" AGAIN! Coping With the Shifting Nature of Jewish Identity

Whining and Wine-ing - Parsha Packet for Shelach

Parsha Packet on bin Laden / Emor / Mother's Day / Israel

Jewish Education, the Seder and "Race to Nowhere"

Parsha Packets: Ethics of Eating and Limits to Humor

Is Natalie Portman the Next Sandy Koufax?

Holy Spaces: The Tabernacle, the Temple and the Kotel

Where Does God Live? Parsha Packet for Terumah

Rabbinic Driving Manual

The Ten Commandments and World Religions

Moses and Jethro: Models of Leadership

God's Playlist: Judaism's Top Ten

"The King's Speech" - and Moses'

Joseph and Wikileaks, Transparency, Government and the Press